Word: lyrically
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...Wolfe was working on when he died. The Hills Beyond was to be the story of the ancestors of George Webber. In these chapters Wolfe laid out a brilliant panorama of 19th-Century Southern society, its law, war, murder and myth. Somewhere past midstream in his transition from wild lyric romanticism to humanism, this prose here lost in effusive splendor, but gained in wit, firmness and control...
Marriage has worked no noticeable change in Cinemactress Durbin. She is a big girl now and, while her speaking voice is often harsh and edgy, her rich lyric soprano is mature enough to entrance Father Laughton, who ends by cutting conga capers with her in a nightclub (see cut p. 94). Her acting, still pleasantly young-girlish, could stand a shot of dramatic voltage...
...Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy (Album M-815). The Double Concerto was Brahms' last essay in the symphonic form. After finishing it he turned back finally and for good to the smaller forms in which he seemed to be more at home, the chamber sonata, the song, and the piano lyric. And I don't think that I am reading things into the music when I say that the Double Concerto has about it a sort of tiredness with the orchestral medium. Even more than in his other works, one senses a continued striving to meet the demands of the symphonic...
...Union Clubbers is this lyric, nor the bitter sincerity with which Pete sings and strums...
...blonde (peroxide) who has been around sufficiently to know who and what is strictly from Dixie. Born Harriette Lake in 1909 at Valley City, N.D., she was tapped for M.G.M. just 21 years later. Among her assets at that time were considerable talent at the piano, a well-developed lyric soprano, three years at the University of Washington, and a onetime concert-singing mother, Mrs. Annette Yde-Lake, a Hollywood voice teacher...